xxix, 386 pages : 24 cm

The Rosenstrasse protest was the climax of ten years of resistance by intermarried couples to Nazism. this book uses Nazi records and interviews with survivors to examine their struggle, and their success

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-364) and index

I. Hitler's theory of power -- II. Stories of Jewish-German courtship -- III. The politics of race, sex, and marriage -- IV. Courage and intermarriage -- V. Mischlinge: "A particularly unpleasant occurrence" -- VI. Society versus law: German-Jewish families and social restraints on Hitler -- VII. Society and law: German-Jewish families and German collaboration with Hitler -- VIII. Kristallnacht: Intermarriages and the lessons of Pogrom -- IX. At war and at home: Mischlinge in Hitler's army -- X. Racial hygiene, Catholic protest, and noncompliance, 1939-41 -- XI. The Star of David decree: The official story and the intermarried experience -- XII. The price of compliance and the destruction of Jews -- XIII. Plans to clear the Reich of Jews, and the obstacles of women and "total war" -- XIV. Courageous women of Rosenstrasse -- XV. Protest, rescue, and resistance

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